Fareed Zakaria Biography
Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-American political commentator and author working for CNN as the host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He joined the CNN news team in June 2008, after previously working for PBS.
Fareed Zakaria Career
Zakaria studied in Mumbai at the Cathedral and the John Connon School. In 1986, he graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts. While there, he was president of the Yale Political Union, editor-in-chief of the Yale Political Monthly, a member of the Scroll and Key club, and a Party of the Right member. Following this, he earned a PhD in government from Harvard University in 1993. There, he studied under Robert Keohane, Samuel P. Huntington, Stanley Hoffmann, and others.
Fareed Zakaria GPS is a weekly show about foreign and domestic news that airs on CNN foreign and CNN in the United States. Since its start in 2008, it has become a well-known TV place for world stars in news and ideas. There have been interviews with U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Fareed Zakaria GPS. Military leaders like Gen. David Petraeus and Adm. Michael Mullen have also been guests, as well as business leaders like Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi and famous people like Bill Maher and Bono.
In 2011, the show won the prestigious Peabody Award, and in 2013, it was nominated for an Emmy Award. Some of the prime-time shows that Zakaria has hosted for CNN Worldwide are “Blindsided: How ISIS Shook the World,” “Why Trump Won,” and “Putin: The Most Powerful Man in the World.” He often gives his well-thought-out opinions on current events and public issues to CNN.com, Fareed’s Global Briefing, a daily digital email, and other CNN shows on all of their platforms.
Zakaria has written three well-known and New York Times bestsellers: In Defense of a Liberal Education (2015), which talks about how important it is to have a well-rounded education; The Post-American World (1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2011), which talks about the rise of non-Western powers; and The Future of Freedom (2003), which looks at “illiberal democracy” in different countries and is also an international bestseller. Zakaria worked as an editor at Newsweek International, managing editor at Foreign Affairs, columnist for Time, expert for ABC News, and host of the PBS show Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria before beginning his job at CNN Worldwide.
The Arthur Ross Media Award was given to Zakaria by the American Academy of Diplomacy in 2017. Zakaria has been called “the most influential foreign policy adviser of his generation” by Esquire magazine and one of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine. He is on the boards of both the Council on Foreign Relations and New America. He has many honors degrees and a bachelor’s degree from Yale University. Zakaria also has a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.
At CNN, Scholes works alongside; Fredricka Whitfield, Bill Weir, Amara Walker, John Avlon, Dana Bash, David Axelrod, John Berman, Victor Blackwell, Wolf Blitzer, Kate Bolduan, Pamela Brown, Kim Brunhuber, Erin Burnett, Alisyn Camerota, Julia Chatterley, Rosemary Church, Laura Coates, Anderson Cooper, Audie Cornish, Amanda Davies, Max Foster, Bianna Golodryga, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Laila Harrak, Erica Hill, Michael Holmes, Van Jones, Brianna Keilar, Lynda Kinkade, John King, Melissa Knowles, Christina Macfarlane, John Miller, Veronica Miracle, Bianca Nobilo, Abby Phillip, Brad Parks, Richard Quest, Don Riddell, Michael Smerconish, Boris Sanchez, Tom Sater.
Fareed Zakaria Salary
Zakaria earns an annual salary of about $1 million-$5 million annually.
Fareed Zakaria Net Worth
Zakaria has an estimated net worth of about $10 Million – $15 Million which he has earned through his career as a political commentator and author.
Fareed Zakaria Age
Zakaria was born on January 20, 1964, in Mumbai, India. He is 59 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 20th of January every year.
Fareed Zakaria Height and Weight
Zakaria stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 70 kgs (154 lbs).
Fareed Zakaria Family
Zakaria was born in Mumbai, India to Rafiq Zakaria; his father, and Fatima Zakaria; his mother. His father worked as a politician in the Indian National Congress and an Islamic theologian and his mother was once an editor of the Sunday Times of India and she was Rafiq’s second wife. Fatima died during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has two cousins; Asif Zakaria and Arif Zakaria. Asif is an Indian politician and has been a Corporator for three terms and serves the Bandra Mumbai constituency. Arif is an actor and from his first movie, Darmiyaan in 1997, to 1947: Earth in 1998, Dance Like a Man in 2004, and biopics like Mardana and the controversial Nanak Shah Fakir, he has been in a lot of movies.
Fareed Zakaria Wife and Children
Zakaria was married to Paula Throckmorton in 1997. Paula was born in 1964, in the United States and works as a jewelry designer, meditation teacher, and writer. Her work has been featured in Slate, the Wall Street Journal, and the Huffington Post, among others. She used to run the Black Book, a photography magazine and resource book based in New York, as president and editor. They were blessed with three children; Lila Zakaria, Sofia Zakaria, and Omar Zakaria. The couple had separated in 2011 due to troubles in the marriage but Unfortunately in 2018, Paula filed a divorce after 21 years of marriage due to an irretrievable breakdown.
Fareed Zakaria GPS
The writer and author Fareed Zakaria hosts the weekly CNN show Fareed Zakaria GPS, which is shown all over the world by CNN International. The letters “GPS” in the show’s name stands for “Global Public Square,” which is a reference to the fact that the show is about international problems and foreign affairs. It airs on Sunday from 10 am to 11 am ET, and it will be shown again from 1 pm to 2 pm ET. There was a Peabody Award in 2011 for Fareed Zakaria’s work on GPS: Interpretation and Commentary on Iran and The GPS Primetime Special: Restoring the American Dream – Fixing Education. The award was given for “covering global issues in a manner that shows their true importance for viewers throughout the world.” An Emmy for “Outstanding Interview” was given to Zakaria’s talk with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
Fareed Zakaria Social Media Platform
Zakaria is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 1M followers on Twitter 50k followers on Instagram, and 775k followers on Facebook.